Education:

Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology with minor in Measurement Psychology), University of California at Los Angeles

Licensed Psychologist, State of Maryland

Teaching Awards:

Mentor of the Year Award (2013)
Awarded by the Maryland Psychological Association for Graduate Students (MPAGS)

Scholarly Interests:

I am broadly interested in the etiology, phenomenology, and treatment of disorders of anxiety and fear. Specifically, I employ experimental fear conditioning paradigms to explore factors that contribute to the etiology and maintenance of fear/anxiety as well as to explore mechanisms involved in the extinction of conditioned fear. These studies utilize physiological, behavioral, and self-report indices. I also study the measurement, phenotypic structure, and temporal stability of anxiety and mood symptomatology using structural equation modeling with cross-sectional and longitudinal observational data.

Course Offerings:

PY291: Research Methods I
PY292: Research Methods II
PY621: Principles and Practices of Psychotherapy
PY810: Psychological Measurement
PY832: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology I
PY833: Research Methods and Data Analysis in Clinical Psychology